Firefighters fear being ‘overwhelmed’ by rise in battery fires after fatal Sydney blaze
by Royce Kurmelovs from World news | The Guardian on (#6E6XR)
A NSW fire and rescue superintendent said the death of a man in a Sydney fire on Saturday night was part of a marked increase' in such incidents
Firefighters say they fear being overwhelmed" by increasing numbers of battery fires, after the death of a Sydney man in a house fire on Saturday night was linked to toxic smoke from burning lithium batteries.
The 54-year-old man was eating downstairs in his Punchbowl unit in Sydney's west with two women when the fire broke out. He tried to extinguish the blaze with a fire extinguisher, but when firefighters arrived he was found unconscious on his bathroom floor with soot on his mouth, having inhaled toxic smoke.
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